Foco en el español de Canariasdos experimentos

Resumo

An acoustic study of linguistic focus in two experiments of production through materials emitted by seven Canary Islands informants was explored. In one experiment different wh-question contexts triggered read emissions of neutral, broad-focus and narrow-focus sentences. In a second experiment, informants produced a read corpus of neutral, single-focus at first and last position in the utterance, and dual-focus sentences contextualIy designed. The experiments have been set up to analize prominence in focused items encoded through FO, duration, and amplitude features. To that end, intonation contours, spectrograms and amplitude values were made for acoustic measurements. Results did not support ilie findings reported fur other languages as French wmch indicated a higher degree of prominence in focused items. On the contrary, the statistical data showed no differences among focused and unfocused items, and arnong neutral and focused sentences. The findings suggested that in this dialect the prosodic encoding of focus appea.rs to be ruled by the speakers in a contextual1y independent and unpredictable manner